"I will always feel like I owe Glen a lot of gratitude -- he was my first contact in Nashville when my wife, Denise, was a flight attendant. She met him at the airport and he gave her his business card for his publishing company," Jackson writes. "This connection lead me down the path that brought me to where I am today."

“I saw Glen [Campbell]’s name, too. Just to think about, most of those are heroes of mine,” Jackson noted at the time. “You look at all that, and you don’t feel like you’re worthy to be in here with them. It’s crazy to think that your name and your face will be on the wall.”

On Twitter, too, Jackson expressed his gratitude for Campbell and that unexpected connection: "This lead me down the path that brought me to where I am today," Jackson writes.